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[The Angel Raliel]

ooooh do we HAVE to wait til you die?

[Agonistes]

yes.  i don't want to actually SEE the lampshade or pillow or whatever you make.

[murmur]

http://www.greenburials.org/

That is everything I want.

Summed up and I have given it to my family.

Also there is a documentary on it.

Watch it here
http://www.pbs.org/pov/afamilyundertaking/

You'll see burials the right way!

The documentary is on netflix instant play !

[murmur]

http://www.eternalreefs.com/

Lol or make me into a reef!

[Astica]

On that topic, I never understood why "grave robbing" was seen as such a bad thing to do.  The dead do not own anything.  Not saying I would actually dig up graves but I sure as hell don't know why anyone would want to be buried with valuables that could benefit their loved ones.

The only cases of grave robbing I've heard of in modern times have been bits of the bodies. Often skulls. My mother used to work in a cemetery where a famous old lord (William Larnach) was buried, in this really fancy old tomb. The tomb has sadly been vandalised to shit in various ways over the years, and there's a big cage around it now. Apparently Larnach's skull has been stolen and replaced three times. One of the thieves, who later became a historian, apparently had it in his possession for a number of years.

[absynth aura]

I read about this place in America (where else) where you could have your ashes put into glass cased bullets and mounted with a custom gun with which you could actually fire the remains of your loved one

[CeeGBee]

On that topic, I never understood why "grave robbing" was seen as such a bad thing to do.  The dead do not own anything.  Not saying I would actually dig up graves but I sure as hell don't know why anyone would want to be buried with valuables that could benefit their loved ones.

The only cases of grave robbing I've heard of in modern times have been bits of the bodies. Often skulls. My mother used to work in a cemetery where a famous old lord (William Larnach) was buried, in this really fancy old tomb. The tomb has sadly been vandalised to shit in various ways over the years, and there's a big cage around it now. Apparently Larnach's skull has been stolen and replaced three times. One of the thieves, who later became a historian, apparently had it in his possession for a number of years.

Some years ago, the son of the principal at our local rich-neighborhood public high school was arrested for stealing jewelry, gold fillings and the like from graves to get drug money....  [sign of the L on forehead]

[tanqgirl]

me and the hubz want to be cremated, then our ashes will be mixed with that of our first puppies (who's ashes will be saved until this point) and then our kid(s) will throw them out over the ocean....at least that's MY plan...

and then we'll probably have this as our tombstone at one of our houses



with jack included

[Agonistes]

ive always had a thing for this particular grave sculpture.

[Shanneeen]

http://www.greenburials.org/

That is everything I want.

Summed up and I have given it to my family.

Also there is a documentary on it.

Watch it here
http://www.pbs.org/pov/afamilyundertaking/

You'll see burials the right way!

The documentary is on netflix instant play !

Okay I know this is super old but it's awesome! Thanks for sharing, I wish everyone could do this.

[The Angel Raliel]

I am seriously considering taxidermy and then being auctioned of as a charity art piece.....

[Savannah]

http://www.greenburials.org/

That is everything I want.

Summed up and I have given it to my family.

Also there is a documentary on it.

Watch it here
http://www.pbs.org/pov/afamilyundertaking/

You'll see burials the right way!

The documentary is on netflix instant play !

Okay I know this is super old but it's awesome! Thanks for sharing, I wish everyone could do this.

Here, in Turkey, dead are always buried this way. No expensive clothing, no embalming, no luxury coffins, etc. They just wash the body with clean water, and wrap it inside a white shroud (which should be seamless), and bury in the ground. (Coffins here are just used to carry the dead to the graveyard)

Anyway, before getting buried this way, i'd like my organs to be donated, hence i always carry a 'volunteer organ donor' card in my purse.

I don't believe in the afterlife-reencarnation things. To me, once you are dead, your body is a useless and unimportant thing, so it belongs to the nature. Let the bacterias do their job

[Paul Jon]

Ideally I'd like to rise from the grave as a vampire. Failing that, I want to be a ghost, but a silly ghost with a white sheet who says "OooOOOooh!"

[Miss Sahara]

http://www.greenburials.org/

That is everything I want.

Summed up and I have given it to my family.

Also there is a documentary on it.

Watch it here
http://www.pbs.org/pov/afamilyundertaking/

You'll see burials the right way!

The documentary is on netflix instant play !

Okay I know this is super old but it's awesome! Thanks for sharing, I wish everyone could do this.

Here, in Turkey, dead are always buried this way. No expensive clothing, no embalming, no luxury coffins, etc. They just wash the body with clean water, and wrap it inside a white shroud (which should be seamless), and bury in the ground. (Coffins here are just used to carry the dead to the graveyard)

Anyway, before getting buried this way, i'd like my organs to be donated, hence i always carry a 'volunteer organ donor' card in my purse.

I don't believe in the afterlife-reencarnation things. To me, once you are dead, your body is a useless and unimportant thing, so it belongs to the nature. Let the bacterias do their job

I'm not sure reincarnation things are contradictory to the body belonging to the nature...

i find especially this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial (EDIT: WARNING: contains graphic fotos!!)
really intriguing and would love to have such a burial if i should die travelling in east asia :-D but i'm not sure they do this with non-buddhist tourists :-D and it certainly wouldn't be fair to my family/friends.

[Miss Sahara]

oh!! sorry! i only looked at the text at the english version, the german version didn't have that much graphic content...